Fort de Maures, sur l'isle Moyella
In the 1680s, French slave captain Jean Barbot wrote, "...We had a conference with the
King and principal natives of the country, about trade, which lasted from 3 o'clock till
night, without any result, they insisting to have 13 bars of iron for a male and 10 for a
female slave; objecting that they were now scarce because of the many ships that had
exported vast quantities of late. Four days later we had another conference . . . and the next
day the trade was concluded."
Pieter van der Aa, from La Gallérie Agréable du Monde, 1729
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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